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The Unpublished Benefit of Paying for Preferred Seats is an article written by the AFF editorial team:
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Hoping this holds true for an upcoming JQ flight DPS-PER (then QF J to SYD booked as a QF CR). Last time I checked SYD+1 and I each had a row to ourselves!The Unpublished Benefit of Paying for Preferred Seats is an article written by the AFF editorial team:
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Oh, I’ve got one of those later this year (booked with UA points). Must revisit seat selection!SQ is another one that comes to mind. Paid for preferred exit row seats on a 737 HKT-SIN. Packed plane except for our row of 6 which went out with just us. I suspect they filled the exit row in front with passengers who didn’t pay the fee giving us all the room.
I have seen this a couple of times on long-haul widebody jets at off-peak travel times - the exit rows are full but the back of the plane has a smattering of empty seats.Does this ever backfire eg. the exit row you paid extra for ends up being full while the people around you who got randomly selected seats have empty seats next to them.
I paid a bit extra for my son's SYD-SFO rev flight (last week) and got him an "Economy Plus" seat (34A).Oh, I’ve got one of those later this year (booked with UA points). Must revisit seat selection!
I have seen this a couple of times on long-haul widebody jets at off-peak travel times - the exit rows are full but the back of the plane has a smattering of empty seats.
Maybe on longer flights people are more willing to spend on extra legroom seats, and they would rather not be shoved to the back of the plane?
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It's a fair game as you haven't paid for those empty seats either.I paid for comfort plus seat on Hawaiian going AKL-HNL. Wasnt overly cheap $100usd. Monitored it on seat plan, on expert flyer and could see the comfort plus seats remaining empty near me. Got on the plane and saw I had a whole middle row to myself and was planning to lie down on ‘my row’ but this fella who was travelling on the window 2 seats with wife and kid (hadn’t paid for a seat for his baby) literally jumped onto the end empty seat on my row before the plane had even got to it’s flying altitude and stayed there the whole flight.
I was able to lie down on the remaining empty seats but wasn’t very comfortable as I couldn’t stretch out due to this guy sitting on my end seat. It’s still survival of the fittest down in Y…
In May I flew HBA - MEL and found Economy X exit row seats available for free. This was one or two days before flight. Flight was quite full. No such luck on return.With Virgin, the EconomyX seats in rows 3-5 are generally taken very quickly by Platinum members (especially Row 3 which gives a massive amount of legroom). But it's a different story with the exit row seats (rows 13-14) which are often the last to be taken.
Your upgrade request will stay but you won't get refunded the seat selection feeDoes anybody know if paying for a seat will bump you out of an upgrade request with Qantas? We have put in an upgrade request for a flight from Rome to Sydney in September but are afraid to purchase seats in case we then get taken out of the running for an upgrade. We won't hear until the week before.
However, If we don't get the upgrade we'd prefer to be in seats of our choice.
Thanks if anybody knows?